Open AccessImportance of Human Development
Author(s) -
Pravin Ransure
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of research in informative science application and techniques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-5814
DOI - 10.46828/ijrisat.v3i11.142
Subject(s) - human development index , human development (humanity) , index (typography) , human development report , rank (graph theory) , economic growth , developing country , political science , development economics , regional science , economics , geography , computer science , mathematics , combinatorics , world wide web
The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index used to rank countries by level of “human development”, which usually also implies whether a country is developed, developing, or underdeveloped. The origins of the HDI are to be found in the Programmes (UNDP) Human Development Reports (HDRs). These were launched by Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 and had the explicit purpose: "to shift the focus of development economics from national income accounting to people centered policies."